Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal - Venezuelahttp://links.org.au/taxonomy/term/34/0
enVenezuela: What’s been learnt won’t be easily forgotten - a conversation with Antonio Gonzalez Plessmannhttp://links.org.au/venezuela-antonio-gonzalez-plessmann
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January 21, 2018 </span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px">— </span><a href="/" style="font-size: 14.6667px"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i></a><span style="font-size: 14.6667px"> reposted from </span><a href="https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/14235" style="font-size: 14.6667px">Venezuela Analysis</a><span style="font-size: 14.6667px"> — </span></span>Antonio
Gonzalez Plessmann, who holds degrees from Venezuelan and Ecuadorian
universities, has been a human rights activist and militant leftist
since the 1980s. A former vice-rector of the National Experimental
Security University, he took part in the process of police reform
initiated in 2006. Today Gonzalez Plessmann is part of the SurGentes
collective and is working with the <a href="https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/13862">Pueblo a Pueblo</a>
project in Caracas’ San Agustin barrio. In this interview with Cira Pascual Marquina, he presents
important insights into the revolutionary potential that Chavismo
unleashed during the course of the Bolivarian Process. It’s a potential
that, he thinks, could be set rolling again.<p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/venezuela-antonio-gonzalez-plessmann">read more</a></p>VenezuelaMon, 21 Jan 2019 11:45:22 -0500fred5361 at http://links.org.auVenezuela under siege: Challenges from within and withouthttp://links.org.au/venezuela-under-siege-challenges-within-without
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By <b>Steve Ellner</b><p>&nbsp;</p>
October 13, 2018 </span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px">— </span><a href="/" style="font-size: 14.6667px"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i></a><span style="font-size: 14.6667px"> reposted from </span><a href="https://alborada.net/venezuela-ellner-video-challenges-chavismo/" style="font-size: 14.6667px">Alborada</a><span style="font-size: 14.6667px"> — </span></span>The siege-like conditions which Venezuela has been subjected to from both foreign interference and domestic opposition present a myriad of challenges for the country to move forward.<p>&nbsp;</p>
On 5 October, Venezuela expert Steve Ellner gave a talk entitled ‘Venezuela under Siege: Challenges From Within And Without’ at the James Connolly Forum in Troy, New York. You can watch the full video here.<p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/venezuela-under-siege-challenges-within-without">read more</a></p>Steve EllnerVenezuelaSat, 13 Oct 2018 08:23:32 -0400fred5330 at http://links.org.auVenezuela’s ‘21st Century Socialism’ and Marx, Lenin and Luxemburg on the role of cooperatives — A response to Marta Harneckerhttp://links.org.au/venezuela-socialism-marx-lenin-luxemburg-cooperatives-communes
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By <b>Stansfield Smith</b><p>&nbsp;</p>July 23, 2018 — <a href="http://links.org.au">Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</a> — Marta Harnecker, author of numerous books and articles advocating her vision of “21st Century Socialism” in Latin America recently <a href="/" title="http://questiondigital.com/marta-harnecker-que-hacer-despues-de-la-elecciones/" target="_blank">published an article</a> that was translated into English and appeared on Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal as “<a href="/marta-harnecker-venezuela-what-is-to-be-done">Venezuela After the Elections: What is to be done?</a>” <p>&nbsp;</p>
We should note first of all that the most important issue facing Venezuela after its May 20 presidential election is coping with the continually increasing US-Canada-European Union economic sanctions and their goal of overturning Chavismo in Venezuela. Of this Harnecker says little. <p><a href="http://links.org.au/venezuela-socialism-marx-lenin-luxemburg-cooperatives-communes">read more</a></p>Communal CouncilscooperativesVenezuelaMon, 23 Jul 2018 03:47:52 -0400fred5296 at http://links.org.auVenezuela — After the elections: What is to be done?http://links.org.au/marta-harnecker-venezuela-what-is-to-be-done
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By <b>Marta Harnecker</b>[1], <i><a href="http://links.org.au">Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</a></i><p>&nbsp;</p>
<h3>Recalling the context in which it emerged</h3><p>&nbsp;</p>
1. By the time Hugo Chávez won the 1998 presidential elections, the neoliberal capitalist model was already in deep trouble. The dilemma he faced was basically whether to refound the neoliberal capitalist model — obviously with some changes, among them a greater concern for social issues, but motived by the same profit-seeking logic — or to seek to build another model.[2]<p>&nbsp;</p>
2. Chávez chose the latter option. In naming it, he decided to resuscitate the word socialism, despite the negative connotations it had due to the past. But he specified that this was a 21st century socialism to differentiate it from the Soviet socialism of the 20th century. He warned that we must not “fall into the errors of the past”; into “Stalinist deviations” that bureaucratized the party and ended up eliminating popular protagonism; into state capitalism that focused on state ownership and not on the participation of workers in the running of companies.<p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/marta-harnecker-venezuela-what-is-to-be-done">read more</a></p>Marta HarneckerVenezuelaSat, 30 Jun 2018 01:03:52 -0400fred5283 at http://links.org.auLo que viene después del 20 de mayo: ¿algo nuevo en la política venezolana?http://links.org.au/despues-20-mayo-algo-nuevo-politica-venezolana
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[Read in English <a href="/venezuela-may-20-elections-where-do-things-stand">here</a>.]<p>&nbsp;</p>
Por <b>Steve Ellner</b><p>&nbsp;</p>
2 de junio de 2018 </span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px">— </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="color: #000000">Traducido con la
ayuda de José Gregorio Tovar y Carmen Sánchez Ellner<i> </i>para <a href="http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=242366&amp;titular=lo-que-viene-despu%E9s-del-20-de-mayo:-%BFalgo-nuevo-en-la-pol%EDtica-venezolana?-">Rebelion</a> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px">— </span></span></span>El desconocimiento de la legitimidad del proceso electoral del 20 de mayo por parte de Henri Falcón y el otro candidato presidencial importante de la oposición, el evangélico Javier Bertucci, no presagia bien para el nuevo periodo del presidente Maduro. La consolidación de un bloque moderado dentro de la oposición representado por Falcón que reconoce la legitimidad del gobierno, hubiera restado influencia a los partidos radicales de la derecha y significado un mayor grado de estabilidad en el país al disminuir la polarización.<p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/despues-20-mayo-algo-nuevo-politica-venezolana">read more</a></p>EspanolVenezuelaSun, 03 Jun 2018 05:36:16 -0400fred5266 at http://links.org.auLa Rivoluzione Bolivariana vince la battaglia, ma sta perdendo la guerra?http://links.org.au/rivoluzione-bolivariana-vince-battaglia-perdendo-guerra
<span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>&nbsp;</p><div style="text-align: center"><img src="https://www.greenleft.org.au/sites/default/files/styles/glw_large_image/public/widerimages/p17%20maduro%20celebrates%20winning%20election.jpeg?itok=a5PXksNy" height="265" width="425" /></div><p>&nbsp;</p>
[Original in English <a href="https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/venezuelas-bolivarian-revolution-wins-battle-it-losing-war">here</a>.]<p>&nbsp;</p>
Di <b>Federico Fuentes</b><p>&nbsp;</p>
28 maggio 2018 </span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px">—</span> Traduzione di Maria Chiara Starace, <a href="http://znetitaly.altervista.org/art/25100">Znet Italy</a> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px">—</span> Anche prima che avessero avuto luogo le elezioni presidenziali del Venezuela del 20 maggio, gli Stati Uniti –guidati da un presidente che ha perduto il voto popolare in un sistema elettorale che sistematicamente priva del diritto di voto milioni di elettori poveri e non bianchi – hanno rifiutato l’elezione perché non era “né libera né corretta”.<p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/rivoluzione-bolivariana-vince-battaglia-perdendo-guerra">read more</a></p>ItalianoVenezuelaSun, 03 Jun 2018 05:17:52 -0400fred5265 at http://links.org.auVenezuela's May 20 elections: Where do things stand?http://links.org.au/venezuela-may-20-elections-where-do-things-stand
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By <b>Steve Ellner</b><p>&nbsp;</p>May 27, 2018 </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px">— </span><a href="/" style="font-size: 14.6667px">Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</a><span style="font-size: 14.6667px"> reposted from </span><a href="https://nacla.org/news/2018/05/25/after-elections-intransigence-venezuela" style="font-size: 14.6667px">NACLA</a><span style="font-size: 14.6667px">— </span><span style="font-size: 11pt">Defeated Venezuelan presidential candidate Henri Falcón announced on May 20 that he would not recognize the legitimacy of that day’s elections. Nicolás Maduro’s reelection was generally expected, though his 68 percent of the vote was higher than what most polls predicted. Similarly, the 54 percent abstention among registered voters came due to the opposition’s Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) call for an electoral boycott. <p>&nbsp;</p>
The refusal by Falcón and the other main presidential candidate, evangelist Javier Bertucci, to recognize the electoral results bodes poorly for Maduro’s new term as president. The consolidation of a moderate bloc within the opposition that Falcón represented which recognizes the government’s legitimacy would have significantly cut into the strength of the more intransigent or radical parties on the Right and provided Venezuelan politics with much needed stability. <p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/venezuela-may-20-elections-where-do-things-stand">read more</a></p>VenezuelaSat, 26 May 2018 22:45:23 -0400fred5264 at http://links.org.auVenezuelan people are prime victims of Ottawa’s sanctionshttp://links.org.au/venezuela-canada-sanctions
<span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>&nbsp;</p><div style="text-align: center"><img src="https://venezuelanalysis.com/files/images/2016/08/kjpg.jpg" width="394" height="295" align="top" style="font-size: 0.74em" /></div><p>&nbsp;</p>
Introduction by <b>Richard Fidler</b><p>&nbsp;</p>
January 27, 2018 — <a href="http://links.org.au">Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</a> reposted from <a href="http://lifeonleft.blogspot.com.au/2018/01/venezuelan-people-are-prime-victims-of.html">Life on the Left</a> — “Since 2014,” <a href="https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/13600">writes a reporter in the online journal <i>Venezuelanalysis</i></a><span style="font-size: 11pt">, “Venezuela has been suffering from a deep economic crisis brought about by the drop in global oil prices, a dysfunctional exchange rate system, and a decrease in oil production levels.<p>&nbsp;</p>
“So far the crisis has been characterised by triple digit inflation, and a shortage of hard cash and everyday staples. Nonetheless, the situation has worsened since December 2017.”<p>&nbsp;</p>
The Maduro government is by no means exempt from responsibility for these deteriorating conditions. It has displayed a remarkable ineptness in its failure to overcome the economic crisis by tackling its underlying causes, notwithstanding some <a href="https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/The-12-Victories-of-Venezuelan-President-Maduro-in-2017-20180102-0009.html">innovative maneuvering</a><span style="font-size: 11pt"> that has, for now, staved off the offensive by its right-wing political opponents and their foreign supporters.<p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/venezuela-canada-sanctions">read more</a></p>CanadaVenezuelaSat, 27 Jan 2018 08:14:24 -0500fred5185 at http://links.org.auCandlelight Revolution Part 2: South Korea’s Constitutional Reformhttp://links.org.au/candlelight-revolution-south-korea-constitutional-reform
<span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>&nbsp;</p><div style="text-align: center"><img src="http://iscenter.or.kr/english/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/10/revision-696x546.jpg" width="696" height="546" align="top" style="font-size: 0.74em" /></div><p>&nbsp;</p>
By <b>Dae-Han Song</b><p>&nbsp;</p><i><div style="text-align: right"><i style="font-size: 11pt">The sovereignty of the Republic of Korea shall reside in the people, and all state authority shall emanate from the people.” – Article 1 of the Republic of Korea Constitution</i></div></i><p style="text-align: right">&nbsp;</p>November 29, 2017 — <a href="http://links.org.au"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i></a> reposted from <a href="http://iscenter.or.kr/english/2017/10/30/candlelight-revolution-part-2-south-koreas-constitutional-reform/">International Strategy Center</a> — A democracy is founded upon the consent and power of the people. Its fundamental compact is the constitution which establishes the rules and government that shape and determine the lives of its people. Yet, rarely is a constitution drawn up by them or with their consultation. Rather, it is done by a political regime mediating the interests of the ruling class. The world’s first completely written constitution was established in 1789. To “protect the minority of the opulent against the majority,” it created the United States Senate [1].<p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/candlelight-revolution-south-korea-constitutional-reform">read more</a></p>International Strategy CenterSouth KoreaVenezuelaTue, 28 Nov 2017 21:26:09 -0500fred5169 at http://links.org.auMarxist theories of the state played out in Venezuelahttp://links.org.au/marxist-theories-state-Venezuela
<span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>&nbsp;</p><div style="text-align: center"><img src="https://www.las2orillas.co/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/constitucion-1.jpg" width="295" height="196" align="top" style="font-size: 0.74em" /></div><p>&nbsp;</p>
By <b>Steve Ellner</b><p>&nbsp;</p>
October 15, 2017 </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px">— </span><a href="/" style="font-size: 14.6667px"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i></a><span style="font-size: 14.6667px"> reposted from </span><a href="http://steveellnersblog.blogspot.com.au/2017/09/marxist-theories-of-state-played-out-in.html" style="font-size: 14.6667px">Steve Ellner's Blog on Venezuela, Latin America and Beyond</a><span style="font-size: 14.6667px"> — </span><span style="font-size: 11pt">An abridged version of this article was published in Historical Materialism, volume 25, no. 2, 2017, pages 29-62<p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/marxist-theories-state-Venezuela">read more</a></p>Marxist theorySteve EllnerVenezuelaMon, 16 Oct 2017 08:50:02 -0400fred5155 at http://links.org.au'People are radicalizing Venezuela's Revolution': An interview with Christina Schiavonihttp://links.org.au/people-radicalizing-venezuela-bolivarian-revolution
<span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>&nbsp;</p><div style="text-align: center"><img height="266" width="400" src="https://mronline.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Mural-commemorating-the-Bolivian-Revolution.jpg" /></div><p>&nbsp;</p>
By <b>Farooque Chowdhury</b> and <b>Fred Magdoff</b><p>&nbsp;</p>
September 7, 2017 — <a href="http://links.org.au"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i></a> reposted from <a href="https://mronline.org/2017/09/01/people-are-radicalizing-the-bolivarian-revolution/">MR Online</a> — Amidst imperialist interference, the people in
Venezuela are carrying on the task of reorganizing their society.
Real-life picture in Venezuela is far different from new-reports the
mainstream media continuously circulates. The following interview of
Christina Schiavoni, a researcher and food sovereignty activist,
provides a different view of the life of the Venezuelan people than we
normally get from the media. The interview covers food and health
situations as well as on-going politics and people’s participation in
the politics. The interview was conducted by Farooque Chowdhury and Fred
Magdoff, in August 2017.<p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/people-radicalizing-venezuela-bolivarian-revolution">read more</a></p>VenezuelaThu, 07 Sep 2017 06:57:13 -0400fred5139 at http://links.org.auCorrecting Eva Golinger on Venezuelahttp://links.org.au/eva-golinger-venezuela-constituent-assembly
<span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>&nbsp;</p><div align="center"><img hspace="-1" vspace="0" border="0" src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/564e40905afbd3cb5c8b4568-480/venezuelas-president-nicolas-maduro-l-greets-supporters-while-he-arrives-to-the-opening-ceremony-of-a-new-avenue-and-inauguration-of-a-public-transportation-route-with-yutong-brand-buses-at-the-state-of-anzoategui-in-this-november-18-2015-handout-picture-provided-by-miraflores-palace-picture-taken-november-18-2015-reutersmiraflores-palacehandout-via-reuters.jpg" align="top" height="320" width="480" /></div><p>&nbsp;</p>
By <b>Stansfield Smith</b><p>&nbsp;</p>
August 21, 2017 — <i><a href="/"><span style="color: #0066cc">Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</span></a> </i>— As the class struggle heated up in Venezuela this year, fueled by interventionist threats by the pro-US Organization of American States (OAS) bloc, many former supporters of the Bolivarian revolution have remained sitting on the fence. Fed up with these fair-weather friends and their critiques which recycle corporate news propaganda, some defenders of Venezuela such as <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/07/13/why-cant-the-u-s-left-get-venezuela-right-2/"><span style="color: #0066cc">Shamus Cooke</span></a>, <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/07/17/time-for-the-international-left-to-take-a-stand-on-venezuela/"><span style="color: #0066cc">Greg Wilpert</span></a>, <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/07/21/venezuelan-opposition-now-opposes-the-people/"><span style="color: #0066cc">Maria Paez Victor</span></a>, have come with articles clarifying the stakes and calling the so-called “left” to account.<p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/eva-golinger-venezuela-constituent-assembly">read more</a></p>VenezuelaMon, 21 Aug 2017 04:53:37 -0400fred5129 at http://links.org.auTrump versus the Venezuelan Revolution http://links.org.au/trump-versus-venezuela-revolution
<span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>&nbsp;</p><div style="text-align: center"><img src="/files/20818914_10154773360805936_1213241437539730990_o.jpg" height="270" width="409" /></div><p>&nbsp;</p></span><div align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><i>Rally in Caracas against Trump's military threats</i></span></div><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>&nbsp;</p>
By <b>Shamus Cooke</b><p>&nbsp;</p>
August 15, 2017 — <a href="/"><span style="color: #0066cc"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i></span></a> — Trump’s threats against Venezuela escalated recently from the economic to the military: after announcing sanctions he threatened that all military options were “on the table.” Trump’s actions were perfectly timed to lend support to the U.S.-backed opposition in Venezuela, whose ongoing violent rebellion aims to topple the government of democratically elected President Nicolas Maduro.<p>&nbsp;</p>
The apex of violence was focused on stopping the recent elections to the National Constituent Assembly (ANC), convened by President Maduro to rewrite Venezuela’s constitution with the goal of resolving the current social-economic crisis.<p>&nbsp;</p>
The ANC was tasked to become the most powerful governmental body while in session. Part of Maduro’s motivation in convening the ANC was to break the political deadlock that started when the U.S.-backed opposition gained control of the Venezuelan parliament, the National Assembly.<p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/trump-versus-venezuela-revolution">read more</a></p>PSUVVenezuelaTue, 15 Aug 2017 09:31:29 -0400fred5127 at http://links.org.auVenezuela: Socialist trade unionist on the Constituent Assembly and recent terrorist attack on military basehttp://links.org.au/venezuela-stalin-perez-borges-constituent-assembly-attack-miliary-base
<span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>&nbsp;</p><div style="text-align: center"><img src="https://www.aporrea.org/imagenes/2014/09/tali.jpg" style="font-size: 0.74em" align="middle" height="287" width="384" /></div><p>&nbsp;</p>
August 9, 2017 — </span><i style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px"><a href="http://links.org.au">Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</a> </i><span style="font-size: 11pt">— Interview with <b>Stalin Perez Borges</b>, activist with LUCHAS (United League of Chavista Socialists) and member of the Consultative Council of the Bolivarian Socialist Workers’ Central (CBST), conducted by <b>Federico Fuentes</b> for <i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/venezuela-stalin-perez-borges-constituent-assembly-attack-miliary-base">read more</a></p>LUCHASVenezuelaWed, 09 Aug 2017 07:58:37 -0400fred5120 at http://links.org.auStalin Pérez Borges (LUCHAS): 'El reto de la constituyente es el de dar el Golpe de Timón a la izquierda'http://links.org.au/stalin-perez-borges-luchas-constituyente-golpe-de-timon-izquierda
<span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>&nbsp;</p><div style="text-align: center"><img src="https://www.aporrea.org/imagenes/2014/09/tali.jpg" height="288" width="384" style="font-size: 0.74em" /></div><p>&nbsp;</p>
9 de Agosto de 2017 — <i><a href="http://links.org.au">Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</a> </i>— Entrevista a <b>Stalin Pérez Borges</b>, militante de LUCHAS (Liga Unitaria Chavista Socialista) y del Consejo Consultivo de la Central Bolivariana Socialista de los Trabajadores y Trabajadoras (CBST) hecho por <b>Federico Fuentes</b> para <i>Links Revista International de Renovación Socialista</i>. <p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/stalin-perez-borges-luchas-constituyente-golpe-de-timon-izquierda">read more</a></p>LUCHASVenezuelaWed, 09 Aug 2017 00:48:35 -0400fred5119 at http://links.org.auVenezuela: Time for left to take a standhttp://links.org.au/venezuela-time-left-take-stand
<span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>&nbsp;</p><div style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.telesurtv.net/__export/1500224255312/sites/telesur/img/news/2017/07/16/download.jpg_1718483346.jpg" width="300" height="170" align="top" style="font-size: 0.74em" /></div><p>&nbsp;</p>
By <b>Greg Wilpert</b><p>&nbsp;</p>
July 17, 2017 </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px">— </span><a href="/" style="font-size: 14.6667px"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i></a><span style="font-size: 14.6667px"> reposted from </span><a href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Time-for-the-International-Left-to-Take-a-Stand-on-Venezuela-20170715-0031.html" style="font-size: 14.6667px">TeleSUR English</a><span style="font-size: 14.6667px"> — </span><span style="font-size: 11pt">Venezuela is heading towards an increasingly dangerous situation, in which open civil war could become a real possibility. So far over 100 people have been killed as a result of street protests, most of these deaths are the fault of the protesters themselves (to the extent that we know the cause).<p>&nbsp;</p>The possibility of civil war becomes more likely as long as the international media obscure who is responsible for the violence and the international left remains on the sidelines in this conflict and fails to show solidarity with the Bolivarian socialist movement in Venezuela.<p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/venezuela-time-left-take-stand">read more</a></p>VenezuelaSun, 16 Jul 2017 22:35:32 -0400fred5110 at http://links.org.auWhy can't the left get Venezuela right?http://links.org.au/venezuela-left-debate
<span style="font-size: 11pt"><div> </div><div style="text-align: center"> </div><div style="text-align: center"><img height="174" width="345" src="https://venezuelanalysis.com/files/imagecache/block_node_images/images/2017/07/img_546014907271531490736376.jpg" /></div><p>&nbsp;</p><p>By Shamus Cooke</p><div> </div><p>&nbsp;</p><p>July 14, 2017 <span style="font-size: 11pt">— <a href="http://links.org.au"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i></a> reposted from <a href="https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/13235">Venezuela Analysis</a> — As Venezuela's fascist-minded oligarchy conspires with U.S.
imperialism to overthrow the democratically elected government of
Nicolas Maduro, few in the U.S. seem to care.
</span></p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/venezuela-left-debate">read more</a></p>VenezuelaFri, 14 Jul 2017 01:06:38 -0400fred5107 at http://links.org.auReinaldo Iturriza: ‘Es el capital político del chavismo lo que está en juego’http://links.org.au/reinaldo-iturriza-venezuela-chavismo-asamblea-constituyente
<span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>&nbsp;</p><div style="text-align: center"><img src="http://urquiafm.net.ve/2016/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/REINALDO-ITURRIZA-1024x681.jpg" style="font-size: 0.74em" align="top" height="227" width="341" /></div><p>&nbsp;</p>
[English version available <a href="https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/reinaldo-iturriza-fate-chavismo-and-venezuela-revolutionary-democratic-experiment">here</a>.]<p>&nbsp;</p>4 de julio de 2017 </span><span style="font-size: 11pt">— <a href="http://links.org.au"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal </i></a></span><a href="http://links.org.au"></a><span style="font-size: 11pt">—</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"> <b>Reinaldo Iturriza, m</b></span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px">ilitante revolucionario y sociólogo,</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"> se ha dedicado por muchos años a trabajar con movimientos populares en Venezuela y escribir sobre la emergencia del chavismo como un movimiento político de los pobres. Entre 2013 y 2016 fue Ministro del Poder Popular para las Comunas y los Movimientos Sociales, y luego de Cultura, en el gabinete de Presidente Nicolas Maduro. <p>&nbsp;</p>
Junto con militantes de diversas organizaciones revolucionarios de base y movimientos sociales, Iturriza se ha postulado con el apoyo de la Plataforma Constituyente Popular como candidato para las elecciones a la Asamblea Constituyente, a realizarse el 30 de julio. <p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/reinaldo-iturriza-venezuela-chavismo-asamblea-constituyente">read more</a></p>EspanolVenezuelaTue, 04 Jul 2017 08:05:29 -0400fred5099 at http://links.org.auThe Left and Venezuelahttp://links.org.au/venezuela-and-the-left-claudio-katz
<span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>&nbsp;</p><div style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.peoplesworld.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/gasmask960.jpg" style="font-size: 0.74em" align="top" height="291" width="480" /></div><p>&nbsp;</p>By <b>Claudio Katz</b>[1]<p>&nbsp;</p><b>SUMMARY</b><p>&nbsp;</p></span><i style="font-size: 14.6667px"><a href="/">Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</a> </i><span style="font-size: 14.6667px">reposted from </span><a href="http://lifeonleft.blogspot.com.au/2017/06/the-left-and-venezuela.html" style="font-size: 14.6667px">Life on the Left</a><span style="font-size: 14.6667px"> — </span><span style="font-size: 11pt">The media keep silent about the violence of the Venezuelan opposition and the prevailing repression by the right-wing governments of Latin America. The Right’s strategy of an institutional coup faces serious limits, but the Left must address this new threat, supporting anti-imperialist decisions and making a distinction between the capitalist boycott and the government’s ineffectiveness.<p>&nbsp;</p>Adhering to social-democratic standards, the post-progressive “critical left” objects to Chavismo, dismissing the danger of a coup, and mistakenly identifying authoritarianism as the main danger. The dogmatists overlook the main enemy and converge with the conservatives or slip toward passive neutrality.<p>&nbsp;</p>The Right only wants elections it is sure it will win. In these very adverse conditions, the Constituent Assembly re-opens opportunities and points to a re-encounter with radical intellectual thought.<p>&nbsp;</p>Full Text (pdf) <a href="/files/Katz%20-%20The%20Left%20and%20Venezuela.pdf">here</a><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/venezuela-and-the-left-claudio-katz">read more</a></p>Claudio KatzVenezuelaMon, 26 Jun 2017 23:02:09 -0400fred5098 at http://links.org.auStalin Pérez Borges, LUCHAS: La salida a la crisis del proceso venezolano tiene que ser democrática, revolucionaria y socialistahttp://links.org.au/stalin-perez-borges-luchas-unica-salida-crisis-venezolano-es-democratica-revolucionaria-socialista
<span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>&nbsp;</p><div style="text-align: center"><img src="https://www.anti-k.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Stalin-Perez-Borges.jpg" height="281" width="500" /></div><p>&nbsp;</p>11 de junio de 2017 </span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt">— <i><a href="http://links.org.au">Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</a> </i>— </span>Entrevista con <b>Stalin Perez Borges</b>, militante de LUCHAS (Liga Unitaria Chavista Socialista) y del Consejo Consultivo de la Central Bolivariana Socialista de los Trabajadores y Trabajadoras (CBST)<p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/stalin-perez-borges-luchas-unica-salida-crisis-venezolano-es-democratica-revolucionaria-socialista">read more</a></p>PSUVVenezuelaSun, 11 Jun 2017 08:24:13 -0400fred5080 at http://links.org.auFor a democratic, revolutionary and socialist solution to the Venezuelan crisishttp://links.org.au/for-a-democratic-revolutionary-socialist-solution-to-Venezuela-crisis
<span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>&nbsp;</p><div style="text-align: center"><img src="https://www.aporrea.org/imagenes/2015/03/trabajadores_petrolero_antiimperialistas.jpg" style="font-size: 0.74em" align="top" height="170" width="315" /></div><p>&nbsp;</p>This joint statement by revolutionary and socialist organizations in Latin America and elsewhere is motivated by the loss of referential principles that certain intellectuals and left parties have suffered with regards to the current crisis in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. An example of this type of one-sided analysis that ultimately ends up aiding the Venezuelan right-wing opposition and US imperialism is the statement by self-proclaimed “left” academics and intellectuals, “An urgent international appeal to halt the escalation of violence in Venezuela” (Aporrea 28/5/17).<p>&nbsp;</p>
We, the organizations and activists who have signed onto this statement maintain that:<p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/for-a-democratic-revolutionary-socialist-solution-to-Venezuela-crisis">read more</a></p>VenezuelaThu, 08 Jun 2017 19:13:48 -0400fred5078 at http://links.org.auStatement in defense of Venezuela by the Network of Intellectuals, Artists and Social Movements in Defense of Humanityhttp://links.org.au/statement-venezuela-network-intellectuals-artists-social-movements-defense-humanity
<span style="font-size: 11pt"><div style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.voltairenet.org/local/cache-vignettes/L390xH256/Venezuelan-390-7f8eb.jpg" height="256" width="390" /></div><p>&nbsp;</p><p>[To sign on email: <a href="mailto:endefensadelpuebloenlucha@gmail.com" target="_blank">endefensadelpuebloenlucha@<wbr></wbr>gmail.com</a>]</p><p>&nbsp;</p>In response to the request of intellectuals against the Bolivarian process in Venezuela .<p>&nbsp;</p>
Under the implicit &quot;I accuse&quot; formula and a few hours before the Organization of American States, OAS, meeting in which the intervention Venezuela would be once again discussed, more than a hundred Latin American, European and American intellectuals and academics recently signed a petition entitled &quot;Urgent international effort to stop the escalation of violence in Venezuela.” <p>&nbsp;</p>
This request constitutes a declaration of principles of its position regarding the Bolivarian situation, developing diagnoses, attributing responsibilities and prescribing an exit to the crisis that takes place in the South American country.<p>&nbsp;</p>
We will not offend the intelligence or morale of the subscribers (some true &quot;sacred cows&quot; of the critical academic world) by questioning their political commitment or their interpretive powers. We will assume each statement of the requested as what it is, as an erroneous thesis on the the Bolivarian process of Venezuela. And as such, we will submit it to analysis, realizing that also the prosecutors can and should be accused.<p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/statement-venezuela-network-intellectuals-artists-social-movements-defense-humanity">read more</a></p>VenezuelaSun, 04 Jun 2017 03:41:04 -0400fred5073 at http://links.org.auSocialist Alliance (Australia) statement on Venezuela: Solidarity needed to defeat counter-revolutionhttp://links.org.au/socialist-alliance-australia-statement-venezuela-solidarity-needed-to-defeat-counter-revolution
<span style="font-size: 11pt"><div style="text-align: center"> </div><div style="text-align: center"><img width="480" height="302" src="https://www.greenleft.org.au/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/p19%20venezuela%20man%20set%20alight%20by%20opposition%20protesters%20May%2020.jpg?itok=MF2tBGaW" /> <br /></div></span><div align="left"><span style="font-size: 11pt"></span><div align="left"><span style="font-size: 11pt"></span></div></div><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>&nbsp;</p><p>
The Socialist Alliance released the following statement on June 3.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>***</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>In the face of ongoing attempts to violently depose the elected
government of President Nicolas Maduro, the Socialist Alliance reaffirms
its support and solidarity with the Venezuelan people, their government
and the Bolivarian revolution.</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/socialist-alliance-australia-statement-venezuela-solidarity-needed-to-defeat-counter-revolution">read more</a></p>Socialist AllianceVenezuelaSat, 03 Jun 2017 04:19:54 -0400fred5072 at http://links.org.auVenezuela: LUCHAS activists on the call for a Constituent Assemblyhttp://links.org.au/luchas-venezuela-constituent-assembly
<span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>&nbsp;</p><div style="text-align: center"><img width="327" height="244" src="https://www.aporrea.org/imagenes/2016/07/stalin_jpg.jpg" /></div><p>&nbsp;</p>
June 2, 2017 </span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt"></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt">— <a href="http://links.org.au"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i></a> reposted from </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><a href="http://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article5005">International Viewpoint</a> </span>— </span></span>Activists from the Liga Unitaria Chavista Socialista (LUCHAS, Unitary Socialist Chavista League) gave their opinion on the call for a National Constituent Assembly made by President Nicolás Maduro on May 1, 2017 in his speech at the celebration of International Workers’ Day.<p>&nbsp;</p>
The aim of the statement is that hopefully comrades from other revolutionary organizations and political personalities, with whom they have been sharing some orientations and positions about what has been happening in Venezuela and in our continent for some months now, decide to adhere to the present declaration. They consider this a document that they make available for discussion, to the various revolutionary political organizations that exist and to the vanguard that has made it possible to move through this Bolivarian and Chavista process.<p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/luchas-venezuela-constituent-assembly">read more</a></p>LUCHASVenezuelaFri, 02 Jun 2017 00:56:55 -0400fred5071 at http://links.org.auPunto muerto en Venezuelahttp://links.org.au/punto-muerto-en-venezuela
<span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>&nbsp;</p><div style="text-align: center"><img src="https://i.embed.ly/1/display/resize?key=1e6a1a1efdb011df84894040444cdc60&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ctvnews.ca%2Fpolopoly_fs%2F1.1698771.1393028877!%2FhttpImage%2Fimage.jpg_gen%2Fderivatives%2Flandscape_620%2Fimage.jpg" height="175" width="310" /></div><p>&nbsp;</p>
[Original version in English published on Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal <a href="/standoff-in-venezuela">here</a>.]<p>&nbsp;</p>
<b>Federico Fuentes</b> entrevista <b>Steve Ellner</b>. Traducido para <i><a href="http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=227026&amp;titular=punto-muerto-en-venezuela-">Rebelión</a></i> por <b>Paco Muñoz de Bustillo</b><p>&nbsp;</p>
Desde hace algunas semanas, Venezuela vive estremecida por manifestaciones casi diarias de protesta (y contraprotesta) con las que los oponentes de derechas del presidente Nicolás Maduro intentan derribar su gobierno.<p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/punto-muerto-en-venezuela">read more</a></p>EspanolVenezuelaSun, 28 May 2017 03:50:40 -0400fred5065 at http://links.org.auStallo in Venezuelahttp://links.org.au/stallo-in-venezuela
<span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>&nbsp;</p><div style="text-align: center"><img src="https://foreignpolicymag.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/mother-of-all-protests.jpg" height="230" width="480" /></div><p>&nbsp;</p>
[Original version in English published on <i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i> <a href="/standoff-in-venezuela">here</a>.]<p>&nbsp;</p>
di <b>Steve Ellner</b> e <b>Federico Fuentes</b>, traduzione di <b>Giuseppe Volpe</b>, <a href="http://znetitaly.altervista.org/art/22274">Da ZNetitaly</a><p>&nbsp;</p>
13 maggio 2017 </span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt">—</span> Il Venezuela è stato scosso nelle settimane recenti da manifestazioni e contromanifestazioni quasi quotidiane, con gli oppositori di destra del presidente socialista Nicolas Maduro che cercano di far cadere il suo governo.<p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/stallo-in-venezuela">read more</a></p>ItalianoVenezuelaSun, 28 May 2017 03:38:49 -0400fred5064 at http://links.org.auVenezuela: speaking up to say the truthhttp://links.org.au/venezuela-speaking-up-to-say-truth
<span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>&nbsp;</p><div style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.alainet.org/sites/default/files/styles/imagen-principal-articulo/public/manifestantes_violentos_0.jpg?itok=-z-_eAQR" style="font-size: 0.74em" align="top" height="225" width="375" /></div><p>&nbsp;</p>
By <b>Atilio Boron</b><p>&nbsp;</p>
May 24, 2017 </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px">— </span><i style="font-size: 14.6667px"><a href="/">Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</a></i><span style="font-size: 14.6667px"> reposted from </span><a href="http://www.alainet.org/en/articulo/185663" style="font-size: 14.6667px">Alainet</a><span style="font-size: 14.6667px"> — In various recent works, different analysts and observers of Latin American political life have reproached intellectuals and militants on the left for their silence on what is happening in Venezuela. That silence, they say, only reinforces the worst features of the government of Nicolas Maduro. This strategy was used a few weeks ago by a noted Venezuelan intellectual, Edgardo Lander, and more recently, in a special production of Pagina/12, it was reiterated by two colleagues from Argentina: Roberto Gargarella and Maristella Svampa. [1]<p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/venezuela-speaking-up-to-say-truth">read more</a></p>Atilio BorondebateImperialismlatin americaVenezuelaTue, 23 May 2017 22:21:29 -0400fred5060 at http://links.org.auIs Maduro taking Venezuela down the authoritarian path?http://links.org.au/is-maduro-taking-venezuela-down-authoritarian-path
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11pt"> </span></p><div style="text-align: center"><img src="https://venezuelanalysis.com/files/imagecache/images_set/images/2017/05/_mg_71261493850657.jpg" style="font-size: 0.74em" align="top" height="303" width="454" /></div><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><span style="font-size: 14.4px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Vera Serif', serif; color: #333333">By <b>Lucas Koerner</b></span><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="font-size: 14.4px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Vera Serif', serif; color: #333333">May 23, 2017 — <a href="http://links.org.au">Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</a> reposted from <a href="https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/13136">Venezuela Analysis</a> — Venezuela is once again dominating international headlines as violent opposition protests bent on toppling the elected Maduro government enter their seventh week. The demonstrations have claimed to date at least </span><a href="https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/13081" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Vera Serif', serif; font-size: 14.4px; color: #2e5393; text-decoration-line: none">54 lives</a><span style="font-size: 14.4px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Vera Serif', serif; color: #333333"> since April 4, surpassing the previous wave of violent anti-government protests in 2014, known as “the Exit”. However, this time around, the unrest coincides with a severe economic downturn and a transformed geopolitical landscape defined by the return of the right in Brazil and Argentina as well as an even more bellicose regime in Washington.</span></p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/is-maduro-taking-venezuela-down-authoritarian-path">read more</a></p>Nicolas MaduroPSUVVenezuelaMon, 22 May 2017 23:13:50 -0400fred5059 at http://links.org.auThe Chávez hypothesis: vicissitudes of a strategic projecthttp://links.org.au/chavez-hypothesis-vicissitudes-strategic-project
<span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>&nbsp;</p><div style="text-align: center"><img src="https://venezuelanalysis.com/files/imagecache/images_set/images/2017/03/chavez_plaza.jpg_1718483346.jpg" width="300" height="170" align="top" style="font-size: 0.74em" /></div><p>&nbsp;</p>
By <b>Chris Gilbert</b><p>&nbsp;</p>
May 23, 2017 </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px">— </span><i style="font-size: 14.6667px"><a href="/">Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</a></i><span style="font-size: 14.6667px"> reposted from </span><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/05/19/the-chavez-hypothesis-vicissitudes-of-a-strategic-project/" style="font-size: 14.6667px">Counterpunch</a><span style="font-size: 14.6667px"> —</span><span style="font-size: 11pt">What does Chavism really stand for? What are its main accomplishments and its main failures? What was the soldier-become-president Hugo Chávez trying to achieve, and how far did he go in achieving it? Most often it is taken for granted that Chávez, who was elected president of Venezuela in 1998, began with an <i>anti-neoliberal project</i> that became, with time, <i>anti-imperialist</i> and then later aspired to <i>socialism</i>. It is also usually argued that, unfortunately, Chávez went very little of the way to achieving the latter goal. Chávez’s project suffered, this story goes, because it was only <i>discursively</i> socialist; that is, it proposed socialism as a goal but could not really begin the transition, being unable to go beyond mere discourse to concrete social and economic facts. That being the case, a part of the Left praises the Venezuelan leader for what it sees as an essentially verbal achievement. This group contends that Chávez fulfilled an important task for humanity by merely recovering and promoting the word socialism after the fall of the Eastern bloc. Others, generally from the so-called Hard Left, are more skeptical. They highlight Chávez’s failure to significantly alter the structure of the society or the economy.<p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/chavez-hypothesis-vicissitudes-strategic-project">read more</a></p>Hugo ChavezNicolas MaduroPSUVVenezuelaMon, 22 May 2017 23:06:52 -0400fred5058 at http://links.org.auCritiquing Maduro from the lefthttp://links.org.au/critiquing-maduro-from-left
<span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>&nbsp;</p><div style="text-align: center"><img src="https://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_large/public/headlines/maduro_0.jpg?itok=OnOHu_b4" style="font-size: 0.74em" align="top" height="166" width="318" /></div><p>&nbsp;</p>
By <b>Steve Ellner</b><p>&nbsp;</p>
May 13, 2017 — <a href="http://links.org.au"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i></a> reposted from <a href="http://nacla.org/news/2017/05/11/critiquing-maduro-left">NACLA</a> — With the intensification of political conflict and economic deterioration in Venezuela, harsh all-encompassing criticism of the government is originating not only from the right side of the political spectrum, but also from the left. Gone are the days when late President Hugo Chávez could boast of having unified the nation’s notoriously fragmented leftist movement, ranging from Trotskyists and Communists to social democrats.<p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/critiquing-maduro-from-left">read more</a></p>Nicolas MaduroSteve EllnerVenezuelaFri, 12 May 2017 22:40:59 -0400fred5051 at http://links.org.au